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Italy recently adopted harsh “emergency” decrees that target migrants by making undocumented entry and residence a criminal offense.
The best imaginable deal between the US and Mexico, or the best imaginable US immigration reform, will not eliminate the flow of undocumented migrants from Mexico and South America overnight.
Unfortunately, several countries are taking this path, with undocumented immigrants and Muslims being the first targets.
Far-right nationalist parties are gaining traction in Europe, while millions of undocumented migrants suffer in the shadows.
Many cities in California and the state itself already act as “sanctuary jurisdictions,” which protect undocumented immigrants from deportation by limiting cooperation with federal authorities.
The DACA program permitted close to 800,000 undocumented young people (known as “Dreamers”), brought into the country as children, to be protected from deportation, so long as they passed a background check and maintained a clean criminal record.
Seasonal and rural workers lack access to collective bargaining, and undocumented migrant workers avoid unions for fear that employers will retaliate by calling the immigration authorities.
The law’s vague wording means that the government could, in theory, arrest anyone who provides any kind of assistance to undocumented immigrants.
And it means, among other things, promising to restore steelworkers’ and miners’ jobs, end the cosseting of minorities, deport all undocumented migrants, cut taxes and increase infrastructure spending by hundreds of billions of dollars, repeal Obamacare, eliminate or somehow renegotiate the national debt, torture militants, and target their families.
That may be a reason why there is so little urgency in solving the problem of undocumented immigrants in the US, and why many countries protect citizens differently than foreigners.
In New York, de Blasio’s IDNYC initiative is providing free government-issued identification cards for all residents – including the homeless, undocumented immigrants, and former convicts – so that marginalized groups can make use of the city’s resources.
Many women migrants are unskilled or undocumented domestic workers.
Trump, in his campaign speeches, made use of the tragic murder of Kate Steinle by an undocumented immigrant to stoke support for his anti-immigrant policies.
He did not, of course, offer any similarly vivid portrayals of undocumented immigrants who have saved the lives of strangers, although such cases have been reported.
He would also build his promised US-Mexico border wall; deport millions of undocumented workers; restrict H1B visas for the skilled workers needed in the tech sector; and fully repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), which would leave millions of people without health insurance.
But he will likely crack down only on undocumented immigrants who commit violent crimes, rather than trying to deport 5-10 million people.
Although deportations have accelerated under Trump, it’s worth remembering that millions of undocumented immigrants were deported under Barack Obama, too.
Trump won the US presidency partly because of his pledges to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and ban Muslims from entering the country.
Rather than debate regulations that could stanch the flow of undocumented migrants into the country, pro-immigration radicals seem to doubt that there should be any laws restricting the movement of people at all.
For now, the biggest Latin American issue for North Americans is the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.—most of whom speak Spanish.
So, a first question for Latin America should be how do the candidates differ on treating the undocumented countrymen already in the US?
McCain, Clinton and Obama support “comprehensive reform” — code words for the ying and yang of managing anti-immigrant sentiment here: give Americans some promises of secure borders and they’ll swallow giving the undocumented a path to citizenship.
He’s been the only candidate to defend the right of the undocumented to get a legal driver’s license – a proposal unpopular with many voters.
Although it took a prostitution ring to bring the former Governor Eliot Spitzer down, his plan to give illegal immigrants the undocumented in New York driving licenses—what most experts say makes a whole lot of sense in terms of safer highways -- proved his first miscalculation.
It is also unlikely that Trump will follow through on his proposal to deport 6-11 million undocumented immigrants.
When it comes to producing terrorists and undocumented immigrants – two critical issues for Europe – Arab military dictators have an inglorious record.
In other words, states and cities may cooperate with the federal government by carrying out federal policies; but the Tenth Amendment provides the constitutional basis for them to challenge or resist federal policies that conflict with their own goals (in this case, shielding undocumented immigrants from arrest and possible deportation).
During the years that followed, the US administration’s attitude towards Hispanic undocumented immigrants alienated an increasing number of Latin American voters.
More important, Trump has been moving away from his tough anti-immigration stance, such as his pledge to establish a special “deportation force” to round up all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US.
Perhaps, he suggested, there should be no due process for undocumented immigrants; they should be sent back without getting the chance to make their case for asylum.
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